COLVILLE VALLEY. 137 
SHAPTER Vir. 
THE COLVILLE VALLEY OUR HEADQUARTERS —THE WHITE-BELLIED 
SWALLOW — CLIFF SWALLOW — BANK SWALLOW — ROUGH- 
WINGED SWALLOW—BARN SWALLOW AND ITS STRANGE NEST- 
ING-PLACE — VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW — WESTERN MEADOW 
LARK — TOWNSEND’S FLYCATCHER — AMERICAN RAVENS — 
BULLOCK’S ORIOLE—-BREWER’S BLACKBIRD OR WESTERN 
GRACKLE OR CANADA VAY—-WHISKY JACK——-LESSER REDPOLE 
—THE LAZULI FINCH — OREGON GROUND ROBIN—GREY- 
CROWNED FINCH. 
Tue United States Boundary Commission were 
stationed about eighteen miles from the Hudson’s 
Bay Company’s fort. It would be of little in- 
_ terest to recount the building of our log-quarters, 
stowing provisions, and completing all the re- 
quisite arrangements for the coming winter. It 
will suffice to say, all was satisfactorily arranged, 
and ample provision made for the commissariat 
of both men and animals. 
Colville valley, in which we erected our head- 
quarters, does not belong to British Columbia, 
but is in American territory. There was no 
